Regions With Higher Rate of Diagnoses Have Lower Fatality Rate For Chronic Conditions
• Public Health • Mar 16 11
An examination of data for more than 5 million Medicare beneficiaries finds that hospital regions that have a greater frequency of diagnoses have a…
How Patients & Hospitals Can Help Prevent the Spread of HAIs
• Infections • • Public Health • Mar 16 11
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) represent a growing concern for both patients and healthcare providers across the nation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
Study: Multi-tasking on the street not a good idea for older people
• Aging and Gerontology • Mar 16 11
Older adults may put themselves at risk by talking on cell phones while crossing the street, researchers report in a new study. The researchers…
New articles examine safety of airport security scanners
• Public Health • Mar 16 11
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun to use whole-body imaging scanners as a primary screening measure on travelers passing through airport security checkpoints.…
Oral Vaccine Could Prevent Half of Cholera Cases, But Less Effective in Kids
• Infections • Mar 16 11
Oral vaccines could prevent up to 60 percent of cholera cases in the first two years after vaccination, according to a new review of…
Some Lean Cuisine dishes recalled
• Food & Nutrition • • Public Health • Mar 16 11
More than 10,000 pounds of Lean Cuisine frozen spaghetti and meatball dishes have been recalled because of the possible presence of foreign materials, the…
Fortified breast milk may not up preemies’ growth
• Children's Health • Mar 16 11
Adding nutrients to breast milk does not appear to boost very preterm infants’ growth over the first year of life, a new study finds.
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Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe
• Public Health • Mar 15 11
Japan faced a potential catastrophe Tuesday after a quake-crippled nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating toward Tokyo, prompting some…
Japan radioactivity could enter food chain
• Public Health • Mar 15 11
Radioactive materials spewed into the air by Japan’s earthquake-crippled nuclear plant may contaminate food and water resources, with children and unborn babies most at…
Omega-3s linked to less age-related vision loss
• Eye / Vision Problems • Mar 15 11
Women who get lots of omega-3 fatty acids are less likely to develop age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an eye disease affecting millions of older…
Alzheimer’s in U.S. claims $202 billion in unpaid care
• Public Health • Mar 15 11
Nearly 15 million people in the United States take care of a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, amounting to…
Stroke incidence higher among patients with certain type of retinal vascular disease
• Stroke • Mar 14 11
Patients with a disease known as retinal vein occlusion (RVO) have a significantly higher incidence of stroke when compared with persons who do not…
Painkiller prescribing varies dramatically among family physicians: study
• Drug Abuse • Mar 14 11
Some physicians are prescribing opioids such as OxyContin 55 times as often as others, according to a new study led by St. Michael’s Hospital…
Antioxidants in pregnancy prevent obesity in animal offspring
• Obesity • • Pregnancy • Mar 14 11
New biological research may be relevant to the effects of a mother’s high-fat diet during pregnancy on the development of obesity in her children.
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U.S. advisers say teens’ menthol cigarette use rises
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 14 11
Use of menthol cigarettes is rising among teenagers and “very high” for minority youth, government advisers said in part of a draft report released…
Japan nuclear health risks low, won’t blow abroad
• Public Health • Mar 14 11
Health risks from Japan’s quake-hit nuclear power reactors seem fairly low and winds are likely to carry any contamination out to the Pacific without…
Age affects us all
• Aging and Gerontology • • Public Health • Mar 14 11
Humans aren’t the only ones who grow old gracefully, says a new study of primate aging patterns.
For a long time it was thought…
Simple blood test detects early emphysema in smokers before symptoms appear
• Respiratory Problems • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 14 11
During a regular annual physical exam, blood is usually drawn to check the health of a person’s heart, kidneys and liver. Now, researchers at…
Alcohol Has Stronger Impact on Gastric Bypass Patients, Study Finds
• Obesity • • Psychiatry / Psychology • • Weight Loss • Mar 10 11
Patients who have had a gastric bypass operation take longer to process alcohol, potentially leading some of them to overindulge when drinking, according to…
Newly discovered role for enzyme in neurodegenerative diseases
• Neurology • Mar 10 11
Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are partly attributable to brain inflammation. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet now demonstrate in a paper published in Nature…
Study provides explanation for connection between low birth weight and obesity later in life
• Childbirth • • Obesity • Mar 10 11
Providing further understanding of the link between low birth weights and obesity later in life, researchers found nutritionally deprived newborns are “programmed” to eat…
Hopkins Children’s study finds some patients with cerebral palsy have asymmetric pelvic bones
• Neurology • Mar 10 11
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center researchers have discovered that most children with severe cerebral palsy have starkly asymmetric pelvic bones. The newly identified misalignment can…
Americans have higher rates of most chronic diseases than same-age counterparts in England
• Public Health • Mar 10 11
Researchers announced today in the American Journal of Epidemiology that despite the high level of spending on healthcare in the United States compared to…
A new look at the adolescent brain: It’s not all emotional chaos
• Brain • • Neurology • Mar 10 11
Adolescence is often described as a tumultuous time, where heightened reactivity and impulsivity lead to negative behaviors like substance abuse and unsafe sexual activity.…
Passive smoking increases risk to unborn babies, study says
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 10 11
Pregnant non-smokers who breathe in the second-hand smoke of other people are at an increased risk of delivering stillborn babies or babies with defects,…